DAVID PRICE will join a rich tradition of Scouse boxers to fight under the Olympic rings.

The first was Jim Lloyd representing the Army in Rome in 1960, before Jimmy Dunne of Maple Leaf ABC travelled to Tokyo in 1964.

Georgie Turpin (Golden Gloves) was the city’s first medal winner when he returned from Munich in 1972 with a bronze.

Another Golden Gloves starlet, Robbie Davies, went to Montreal in 1976, but the city’s strongest representation was at the 1980 Games in Moscow.

St Helens trio Keith Wallace and Ray and George Gilbody were joined by Joey Frost and bronze medallist Tony Willis (Rotunda).

John Lyon continued St Helens' rich vein of qualifiers, at Los Angeles in 1984 along with Brian Schumacher, who at the time was boxing for the Navy, and popular city fight figure John Hyland (St Ambrose), who was beaten by the eventual gold medallist. Flyweight Lyon was also in the squad that travelled to Seoul, Korea four years later.

Alan Vaughan of Huyton ABC and Runcorn's Robin Reid, who won bronze, ensured there was some Scouse slang around the ring in Barcelona in 1992 before David Burke became the first boxer out of Price’s Salisbury club to go to the Games at Los Angeles in 1996.

“It’s a fine list of champions and one I am proud to join,” Price said. “Many of them are people I grew up looking up to.”